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impudent pageants, and imprudent pranckea. These houndes (vpon 

 whom this present portion of our treatise runneth) when they are to 

 follow such fellowes as we haue before rehersed, vse not that liberty to 

 raunge at wil, which they have otherwise when they are in gamp (except 

 upon necessary occasion, whereon dependeth an urgent an effectuall 

 perswasion), when such purloyners make spsedy way in flight, but 

 beyng restrained and drawne backe from running at random with the 

 leasse, the ende whereof the owner holding in his hand is led, gnyded and 

 directed with such swiftenesse and slownesse (whether he go on foots or 

 whether he ryde on horsebacke), as he himself e in harte would wishe for 

 the more easie apprehension of these venturous varlots. In the borders 

 of England and Scotland (the often and accustomed stealing of cattell so 

 procuring) these kinde of Dogges are very much vsed and they are 

 taught and trayned up first of all to hunt cattell as well of the smaller 

 as of the greater grouth, and afterwardes (that qualitie relinquished and 

 lefte) they are learned to pursue such pestilent persons as plant theyr 

 pleasure in such practises of purloyning as we have already declared. Of 

 this kinde there is nene that taketh the water naturally, except it please 

 you so to suppose of them whych follow the Otter, whych sometimes 

 haunte the lande, and sometime useth the water. And yet neuerthelesse 

 all the kind of them boyling and boyling with greedy desire of the pray 

 which by swymming passeth through riuer and flood, plung amyds the 

 water, and passe the streame with their pawes. But this propertie 

 proceedeth from an earnest desire wherwith they be inflamed, rather 

 then from any inclination issuyng from the ordinance and appoyntment 

 of nature. And albeit some of this sort in English be called Brache, in 

 Scottishe Bache, the cause hereof resteth in the shee sex and not in the 

 generall kinde, for we English men call bytches belonging to the hunting 

 kinde of Dogges, by the tearme aboue mencioned. To bee short it is 

 proper to the nature of houndes, some to keepe silence in hunting untill 



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